49 years later, Castro steps down
This many years ago in my mother’s belly, her pushed against the window worried about my father who defied curfew in Havana and went out to “get food” – “check on my grandfather’s stores” – “see what was going on” (the story changes every time it is told) – my mother, eight months plus pregnant pushed up against the window trying to see the 14 year old soldiers “smacking their chewing gum,” “carrying rifles,” coming to get Batista’s large body guard – the sound of the body guard’s German Shephard pacing the long corridor.
Fidel Castro steps down today as ruler of Cuba – is it possible that forty nine years have gone by – that Cuba has been under his rule without interruption for nearly five decades – is it possible that it is over?